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The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITL) is nationally recognized as an award-winning engineering education leader, this program supports hands-on engineering learning through an innovative environment where students integrate engineering theory with practice and learn through doing.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Technology | FacilitiesIn 2014, the University of Michigan launched an NSF-funded program to reinvent introductory teaching and learning in the core STEM disciplines. REBUILD (Researching Evidence-Based Undergraduate Instructional and Learning Developments) aimed to promote recruitment, retention, and academic…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceBrown University focuses on improving the mathematical competency among STEM majors by seeking to introduce evidence-based, high impact practices in first and second year STEM courses. The goal, reducing attrition from science and improving students’ identification with science as a career.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceCornell University’s College of Engineering offers Academic Excellence Workshops to enhance student learning of content in several key gateway courses in engineering. Designed to enhance student understanding, the workshops feature peer-facilitated group work on problems at or above the level of…
Pedagogy | Educational PracticesAs a response to the findings of an institutional assessment, Duke university has a three-pronged, overlapping approach to enhancing the success of incoming Duke students who have traditionally struggled the most in the STEM curriculum.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceThe Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Indiana University Bloomington provides leadership and expertise to enable innovation in curricula, implementation of powerful technologies and pedagogies in and beyond the classroom, and student engagement with learning resources and…
Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceMichigan State University is instituting reform of the gateway courses in biology, physics, and chemistry with an ultimate goal to design and implementation of a set of coherent gateway courses where students learn how to engage with the core ideas of the discipline in scientifically plausible ways.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceNorthwestern University Ventures in Biology Education (nuViBe) aims to reshape Northwestern undergraduate bioscience education and prepare students to pursue cutting-edge research, advanced degrees, and professional careers in biological and biomedical sciences.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceLabMatch was created to foster meaningful research collaborations between first and second year undergraduate students and graduate students in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional DevelopmentThe Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University began a pilot program to develop the communication skills of graduate Teaching Assistants. The goal was to improve undergraduates’ experience in a gateway course, with the long-term goal of bolstering retention of students in…
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